“It feels great not to be boxed, but just express yourself as an artist freely with your own signature sound throughout any genre.”
Often we forget that a career in music is not always glamour and fame. We only see the beautiful outcome, the music. But just like any other profession, being a music producer can have its challenges as well as its rewards. Robot Koch is no stranger to this ballgame.
The German producer/composer who now lives in LA, California, is known for creating futuristic sound with human character. A style that is not only inventive, but also creatively reflects how his downs were in parallel his new beginnings. We sat down with the producer and owner of the label Trees and Cyborgs to talk to him about his unique beats and the transition from being a Berlin-based artist to a global pioneer.
Give a listen to the podcast mix he put together exclusively for you on WITNESS THIS… See more pics
My picture of the three founders of the New York Startup NS1 got published in The Wall Street Journal.
“A startup that aims to modernize one of the fundamental protocols of the internet has raised $20 million in funding.
NS1 seeks to reinvent one of the web’s fundamental protocols: the domain name system, invented in the early 1980s, which translates website addresses into internet protocol so a browser can find the content that users request….”
Serious big DJs come with their own visual artists. In case of master DJ Seth Troxler we are talking about a humble human being by the name of Aaron Kulik aka Koolik Visuals.
I had a very creative shooting with Aaron for our latest feature on WITNESS THIS, combining his art with my photography.
For the ‘Witness This – Mix Of The Month August 2017’, I met Canadian DJ & Producer Mike Shannon
at Berlins famous ‘Club der Visionaere’ for a shooting.
For the online creative magazine WITNESS THIS, I visited the Berlin arts dealer Anahita Sadighi in her shop in Wilmersdorf.
“To live with art is a silent, satisfying, and long-lasting joy.
Objects that please our aesthetic needs, give us positive energy, and can be passed on from generation to generation
seem a worthwhile investment in times of fast transition and search for identity.”
